Müllerian anomalies "without a classification": from the didelphys-unicollis uterus to the bicervical uterus with or without septate vagina

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2369-2375

  Acién, Pedro ^a   Acién, Maribel ^a   Sánchez Ferrer, M Luisa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JUAN   (Spain)

Author keywords

bicervical; bicornuate uterus; classification of M llerian anomalies; didelphys uterus; septate cervix; septate uterus; Uterine malformations; vagina

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MENOPAUSE; METRORRHAGIA; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS DIDELPHYS; UTERUS HORN; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CERVIX UTERI; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULLERIAN DUCTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 67349089585     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.079     Document Type: Article

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